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| whelma |
Posted - 07/17/2007 : 15:13:12
Hello, I have read Dr. Sarno's The Mindbody Prescription and Healing Back Pain, but just glanced at the Divided Mind. I found him by chance when my back went out last summer. I have had back pain consistently my entire young adult life and up but last summer it went out, and went out big time! I have never felt that kind of pain in my back and was sure it broke. I went to a PT who really helped with movements and felt better and began running again. Then it started to ache and be sore and I really questioned whether it was true, Dr. Sarno's theories. I am a doubter by nature, I am in a 12 step program where I write daily about my feelings in a very positive way, not negative. However, I get easily stressed, I get easily resentful, I get easily nervous. I lost a very dear grandfather just 3 months before my back went out, and coincidentally, it started to hurt badly around his birthday and just 2 days later I was flat out in pain. I was on vacation and had to stay in my room the entire week. I also fear it happening again and have stopped running. I walk and feel that with walking it doesn't hurt as much, which leads me to think, maybe it is just not TMS but my back can't take the pounding of running. So I flicker back and forth. I DESPERATELY want to believe this is something that I can talk myself out of, but I've having a hard time with it. I am sick and tired of wasting my days on it also. And the thing that is making me think it is TMS more and more is that when my back doesn't hurt, my neck does. When my neck doesn't, my feet do. When they don't, I have allergies. And the beat goes on....it's always something somatic and I feel like a huge failure because of it. So I contacted a doc who basically said it's 400 bucks for an hour and no insurance, which made me angry thinking that it's a rip off and why would anyone wanting to help do that and not offer sliding scale and blah, blah, blah. I have read through a lot of these postings and I see the stinking thinking comments and the you have to believe. But here the long winded question: HOW DO YOU BELIEVE? Is it just reinforcement over and over? Is it just reiterating that yes, it's okay. Even when my back is throbbing over and over I am to tell myself to run? That's too scary and I can't trust it. So anyone who did go through the running pain or anything like this - - one thing to another, please let me know how you are dealing with it! Many thanks! |
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| stanfr |
Posted - 07/19/2007 : 01:37:24
You also believe by putting the fear aside and having faith. If you can do that, even for a short time, then take note of how the pain/symptoms either diminish or don't get worse. This will reinforce your original suspicians. So yes, it's reinforcement, but reinforcement based on results! You build on each step forward, and don't worry about the fewer steps back. |
| Stryder |
Posted - 07/17/2007 : 22:00:24
You can believe because thousands have gone down the same path before you and they are now better. Sarno rocks! Take care, -Stryder |
| sensei adam rostocki |
Posted - 07/17/2007 : 16:49:02
Hi and Welcome. To answer many questions at once...
You believe by UNDERSTANDING the concepts of TMS and accepting them as a plausible and sensible explanation for your pain. If you can not do this, there is little hope of continuing the knowledge therapy process. Reading your post definitely says TMS to me, hopefully you will see that your symptoms do not make real sense for a physical disorder and start the process of intellectual acceptance. I think you will be fine. It is not an overnight process, but it is a process nonetheless. Good luck. – Sensei
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